Breslin Ridyard Fadero Analysis of GVSD Bacton Hill Road Site

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BRESLIN

RIDYARD

FADERO

ARCHITECTS

August

25,

2008

Richard

H. Krumrine

Supervisor

of

Buildings

and Grounds

Great

Valley School

District

47

Church

Road

Malvern,

Pennsylvania

I

9355

'.

RE:

BACTON

HILI, ROAD

SITE

ANALYSIS

Dear

Mr.

Krumrine:

Enciosed

are

12

booklets and

one set

of

full

size

prints

of

the

Preliminary Site Analysis for the

Bacton

Hill Road

property.

This

analysis

is

prelinninary

and

a

more detailed

analysis

is

required

before

you

go

any

further

in

your

deliberations.

Speci{ic

items

that must

be addressed

are

as

follows:

.

Site line

study to confirm

bns access

points

onto

Bacton

Hill

Roacl.

.

Research natural

gas

and

petroleum

pipeiine

restrictions

on

the

site.

.

Geotechnicat

study to determine

allowable

areas

for building

placement

and

site

improvements due lo existing

sinkhole

conditions.

'

Address

concerns on

providing

water

service

to the

site as addressed

in the Phase I

Environmental

site

Assessment

dated July

2008

(Executive

Summary

attached).

This

analysis,

however,

does

highlight the lirnitations

of

the

site

in

regard

to building

size.

The

site

appears

to

lend

itself to an

elementary

school

if a

communit;r

center

is

also

placed

on the

site.

A middle school

or

high school

would be

limited

in the amount

of

athletic

fields

that could

be

provided

with

a community

center sharing

the site.

If

you

have any

questions,

do

not

hesitate to

cail.

Very truly

yours,

MI(A:dmd

FedEx

Priority

cc:

Robert J.

Breslin

Robin

W. Breslin

Enclosures

1226

UNION

BOULEVARD,ALLENTOWN,

PENNSYLVANIA

1S109

Telephone:

610-437-9626

Telefax:

610-437-4769

E-mail: [email protected]

www.breslinarchitects.com


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SPoTTSISTEVENSIUcCOY

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Executive

Summar

Spotts,

Stevens

and

McCoy, Inc.

(SSM)

performed

a Phase I Environmental

Site Assessrnent

(Phase

I

ESA) on

the

50 acre

parcel

lcrown as

51 N. Bacton

Hill

Road, located in

Malvern,

Chester

County,

Pennsylvania.

The

Phase

I

ESA

was

performed

in accordance with the

American

Sociefy of

Testing

and

Materials

(ASTM) E

1527-A5, Standard Practice

for

Environmental

Site Assessments.

This

Phase

I

ESA

has revealed

evidence

of four

(4)

recognized

environmental

conditions

as defined

in Section 2.1 of this

report.

Recognized

Environmental

Conditions

The first recognized

environmental

condition

is the natural

gas

and

petroleum

pipelines,

located

across the

site and

ad.jacent to

the northem

border of the

site.

While

no

documented

releases

from

these

pipelines

were

identified during

tJre

assessment,

the

existence

of

significant

quantities

of

liquid

petroleum

at a site without public

water

access

is

a

concern.

If

leaks

or spills

have

occurred,

or

occw

in the

future, they

have the

potential

to impact

soil,

groundwater,

and indoor air quality

of sfructures

located

over

and adjacent

to

the

area

of impact. In

the

case

of

the

natural

gas

pipeline,

historic

use

of

PCBs

in

turbines

and compressors

has

resulted in documented

environmeital

contamination

due

to

contamination

of

tire pipelines

from

PCB containing

oil blow

by in the compressors.

This is a iesser

concetrl

than

thc

petroleum

pipeline

risk;

however"

it is worth noting.

The

second

recognized environmental condition

is

the

presence

of

the former railroad

across the

properfy.

Railroads

often

used herbicides

containing

contaminants

such as

arsenic

and.lead

to conhol

vegetation

along the

tracks.

Arsenic

and

lead

are frequently

identified

in

environmental

studjes at

rails-to-trails projects

and at other

areas

where

former

rail

lines are

being developed.

The

third

recognized

environmental

condition

is

the

Superfimd

site

known

as

Foote Mineral

Company

Frazer Operations.

While

Mr. James

Feeney

of

the

EPA

has

indicated

to SSM that he does

not

believe that

the

Foote

Mineral site

has adversely

impacted

properties

located

to

the

north

of the

Foote

Facility, no

groundwater

quality

data

is available

for wells

along

N.

Bacton

Hill

Road

since

the

early

1990's.

Since

public water

is

not

available

to

the site, the

water

quality

impact

from the Foote

Mineral

Superfund site is a concern.

SSM

File 109455.000{


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SPoTTSISTEVENSIMcCOY

The

west

adjacent

Transcontinental

Pipeline

Compressor

Station,

Iocated

at

60

N.

Bacton

Hill

Road

has

been

in existence

since the

i950's.

Wastes generated.during

operation

at

the station

have

been

documented.

Specifically,

various

manifest

records

for the disposal

of PCB

Wastes

were

included

in

the

EDR

report.

These

manifests

indicate

that drums

and

dump

trueks

of

"miscellaneous

pCB

wastes"

were disposed

in

the

mid-1990's.

PCBs

were

used

by

the

natural

gas

pipeline

industry

in

turbines

and air compressors

at

stations

like

the

one at 60

N.

Bacton

Hill

Road.

pCBs

use

was

discontinued by

the

pipelines

in

the

mid-i990's,

and

this waste

disposal

may

have

been

a

result

of

new

waste

regulations

introduced

in the

early

1990's.

While

no records

of

environmental

contamination

exist

for

the

Transcontinental

Gas Pipeline

Corporation

facility,

the need.

for

,dump

trucks"

to dispose

of

miscellaneous

PCB wastes

indicates

that

a spill

cleanup

may

have

been

bonducted,

but

not reporfed.

While

not all

flre

facts are

curently

known,

since

tlis

activify

is

documented

on an

adjacent

and up-gradient

property,

this

is

a

recognized

environmental

condition.


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